Grindstones Westfield Quotes & Sayings

Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the street. The blackness riddled by the singing of crickets: sound, that dead will-o'-the-wisp, that musical light perceived by the spirit. A thousand butterfly skeletons sleep within my walls. A wild crowd of young breezes over the river. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term. — Penelope Keith

The truer the facts the better the fiction. — Virginia Woolf

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men. — Fernando Pessoa

She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it. — Lorrie Moore

They wouldn't have rescued you," he said. "They wouldn't risk bringing an outsider through Kajjil."
"Guess I just ruin everything for you, don't I? Give you headaches and keep you from getting rescued-"
"I told them no," he said, "even when I thought - when I hoped - the Eirnin would have cured me. — Cassandra Rose Clarke

History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future ... It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views. — Thomas Jefferson

Sea World's killer whale collection needs constant replenishing. The average life span of the animals in captivity is less than half the average for killer whales in the ocean. — Nina Easton

We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity. The appeal of literature is that it is so thoroughly a human thing - by, for and about human beings. If you lose that focus, you obviate the source of the power and permanence of literature. — M.H. Abrams

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely. — Truman Capote

I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape. — Chelsea Cain

People come and people go and we know this happens, yet we get such a shock when it does. — Cecelia Ahern

Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part. — Mahmud Shabistari

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind. — Eric Hoffer